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Fife racing star Jonny Adam laps up glory at Le Mans
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Fife racing driver Jonny Adam has added Le Mans winner to his impressive CV.
The 32-year-old was the only Scot in the world’s greatest sports car endurance race at the weekend.
After finishing sixth in class on his debut last year, the back-to-back British GT title winner was part of the Aston Martin team that won the GTE Pro class at the 2017 event.
Victory was secured at the beginning of the final lap when Adam pounced on the class-leading Corvette of Jordan Taylor.
Adam had spent the final stint hounding Taylor, and his perseverance paid off.
He said: “At the (final) pit stop, the words on the radio were, ‘OK, this is for Le Mans, if you want to win it you’ve got to get by’.
“The one area I thought he looked weak on was the run to Indianapolis and down to Arnage.
“So when I got on to the back of him again, I knew I couldn’t not have an opportunity.
“There was a small bit of contact on the way out of the corner and again the gap rose, but he had a big lock-up down the Mulsanne, into the second chicane, and then after that he was braking a lot earlier in some places.
“Then at the final corner I could see his left-front tyre seem to start delaminating, and the key then was to be patient, wait until the exit, and get him there.
“We’d waited 24 hours for it. I had to take that opportunity when it arose.
“I think we all had a battle at some point with the Corvette and we were quite evenly matched.
“The key thing was to hunt them down and try to force that mistake – and Jordan unfortunately made that mistake.”